{"id":235667,"date":"2026-04-21T22:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researchers-uncover-source-of-strange-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:17:59","slug":"researchers-uncover-source-of-strange-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/researchers-uncover-source-of-strange-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover Source of Strange Deformation in Earth\u2019s Largest Continental Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-source-of-strange-deformation-in-earths-largest-continental-rift2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}